oxcart
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of oxcart
Example Sentences
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The oxcart has played a significant role in Cambodia for centuries, especially for farmers and for the transportation of agricultural goods and people in rural areas.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024
Nowadays, when oxcart and sailing ship no longer govern governing, Sacramento is still at least symbolically remote from Californians, even though they send their own legislators there.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2021
Yet who will step up to the challenge and act the Alexander to this pop-cultural oxcart?
From Slate • Oct. 29, 2014
Flynn concludes that it is, and the caravan continues slowly through the bush, negotiating trails usually traversed by oxcart.
From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2014
In Westeros, it might have been called an oxcart, though it was a deal more ornate than any cart that Quentyn had ever seen in Dome, and lacked an ox.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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